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Strange Fruit (2002) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2002 · 57 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Joel Katz
- Starring
- Billie Holiday, Pete Seeger, Milton Gabler, Ethel Rosenberg, Dorothy Thigpen, Farah Jasmine Griffin
After seeing a 1937 photograph of a Southern lynching, Bronx teacher Abel Meeropol wrote the poem “Strange Fruit,” opening “Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.” He set it to music and persuaded Billie Holiday to record a powerful, heartbreaking version. Director Joel Katz combines jazz history, biography, archival performance footage and the legacy of lynching to uncover the hidden origins of this American classic.
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